Adobe's Jim Mendes, the Exam Development Project Manager with the Adobe Solutions Network (ASN), kindly offered the following sample questions from the Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) exam for Acrobat 5 (these are actual questions developed for consideration -- but not selected for -- the actual exam).

The correct answers appear with an asterisk and in boldface.

1. What is the purpose of a Trusted Certificate?

to verify the version of Adobe Acrobat being used

*to define privileges for specific users of a document

to verify the serial number of the Adobe Acrobat copy

to add accessibility features to an Adobe PDF document

2. You need to reuse all of the text in a 20-page PDF file that you created. You do not have the original document that was created in the authoring program. Which method extracts the text on all 20 pages at one time, so you can use the text in an authoring program?

*choose File>Save As, and select Rich Text Format

choose File>Save As, and select Encapsulated PostScript

select the text with the Column Select tool, then copy and paste it in the authoring program

select the text with the TouchUp Text tool, then copy and paste it in the authoring program

3. Your tagged PDF document contains a table that is displayed
in the middle of a paragraph. You want the table to display
at the end of the paragraph when you reflow the document.
Which tool should you use?

OK, so you want to stamp your document. Maybe you need to give reviewers some advice about the document's status or sensitivity. This tip from author Ted Padova demonstrates how to add stamps with the Stamp Tool along with related comments.